À Bloc
The V surrounds us, it penetrates and binds us together. Through disciplined practice we are able to draw from it to push harder and go farther on the bike; what we do on the bike then informs how we face our lives. The masters, such as the Prophet Merckx and the Apostle de Vlaeminck, could channel this strength to overcome the greatest challenges both on and off the bike.
The question we must always ask ourselves is, how hard is hard enough? The answer is, you go until the lights go out, and then you go some more. Today’s lesson is that if you can still stand after the effort, you didn’t go hard enough. Nice one, Laurel.
Merckxspeed, my fellow Velominati.
I’m starting the Build phase of training after Christmas so I’ll doing a lot more, short, very hard efforts. I’m intrigued to find out just how much I can hurt myself.
Laurel is such a badass. One of my favourite young athletes to follow – her and the rest of the Raleigh-Clement and TSH crew are an amazing bunch.
@The Pressure
Thank goodness, as someone like Fabio Aru freaks me out a bit
@Chipomarc
So it’s not just me then? Aru is such a fucking gurner, it drives me nuts!
@Oli
They’d call Phil Jones the Fabio Aru of football if they knew.
@pistard
Who is Phil Jones?
Wait, Google is my friend. I’m not much for the “soccers”, soz!
@mouse
@mouse
This^ I did my first cyclocross race last weekend, trained hard and am pretty good on the road. It was without doubt the hardest hour I’d ever spent on a bike, literally a lactic acid hell. I’m hooked though, can’t wait for the next one (it’s weird how that happens isn’t it?)
CX HURTS! Nothing can get my hart rate pegged like a CX race! I’m sad the season is over!
@Oli
Dude’s a regular Voeckler!
@frank
Yes but Hinault would have just pushed the O2 mask out of his face like Nacho Libre telling his buddy to “get that corn outta my face!”
Esqueleto!